"At the moment, Australian farmers receive a lot of seeds that are actually bred in Holland, but they come out to Australia, they grow, an Australian-based disease breaks out and the plants are not resistant," he said.

"We use natural selection to make sure the cucumbers we grow are resistant to native and known diseases for crop.

"So if any of the plants we're breeding have CGMMV, we'll remove them from the breeding pool."

Abundant Produce listed on the Australian Stock Exchange earlier in 2016.